Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 26 Jun 2001 10:30:41 -0300 (BRT) | From | Marcelo Tosatti <> | Subject | Re: parport_pc tries to load parport_serial automatically |
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On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Tim Waugh wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 03:17:32AM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > > If the initialization of parport_serial fails, we obviously get an > > error message, which is really annoying: > > [This is different to the issue that is fixed in the -ac tree about > parport_serial getting probed for even when disabled in config.] > > The idea was that people who have multi-IO cards but don't know what > modules are can have things Just Work: parport_serial gets loaded > automagically and detects their cards for them. But yes, the flip > side is that people who _don't_ have multi-IO cards are going to get > that error. > > There are three ways out, I think: > > - change parport_pc so that it doesn't request parport_serial at > init. In this case, how will parport_serial get loaded at all? > Perhaps with some recommended /etc/modules.conf lines (perhaps > parport_lowlevel{1,2,3,...})?
I think this is sane. This is how it works for parport_pc.
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